Sample · an invented bakery, so the figures are safe to publish
Your real numbers · from Stripe · Oct 19
$32,300 a month, and where it leaks.
About $1,165/mo you can get back
What the numbers say
- 7 subscriptions are past due — $245/mo at risk
Failed card payments, not decisions to leave. Turn on Smart Retries and the failed-payment emails in Stripe → Billing → Revenue recovery, then email each one personally today: "your card bounced, here is the link".
- $140/mo of subscriptions cancelled, on average, each of the last three months
Turn on the cancellation reason survey in Stripe → Billing → Customer portal, and send one plain win-back email to everyone who left in the last 90 days. Recovering a fifth of it is normal.
- Refunds are 3.4% of sales — $1,097/mo
Above 2% usually has one cause. Read the last ten refund reasons; the fix (a clearer listing, a delivery-time promise, a size guide) tends to cover most of them.
- The 30¢ per payment costs you $687/mo on a $14 average sale
Bundling two visits into one payment, or a monthly plan, halves it.
- Revenue fell 11.9% last month ($29,700 against a $33,700 average)
Check whether it is fewer customers or smaller orders: the fix for each is different. The Monday moves will work from this.
- May 2026$31.2krefunds $640 · fees $1,010
- June 2026$33.9krefunds $720 · fees $1,100
- July 2026$32.4krefunds $900 · fees $1,060
- August 2026$34.8krefunds $1,150 · fees $1,140
- September 2026$29.7krefunds $1,240 · fees $980
- October 2026 (so far)$18.3krefunds $610 · fees $600
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Check my StripeArithmetic on Stripe data, not financial advice.